
586
Subject
 Index
Three–dimensional conservation equa-
tion,
 399
Threshold,
 286,
 313
concentration
 for
 mutation,
 422
population
 for
 disease,
 211,
 247
voltage,
 316
Thromboembolic disease,
 145
Time
 scales,
 277–278
Tip–branch
 anastomosis,
 484
Tip–tip
 anastomosis,
 484
Tissue
culture, 470–477,
 489
Topological index theory, 360, 375ff
Topological
 properties
 of
 curves, 375ff
Total differential
 of
 scalar
 function,
353
Trace,
 of 2x2
 matrix,
 15
Tracheids,
 287,
 289
Trajectory, 169,
 173
closed
 periodic,
 192, 312,
 327
heteroclinic, 192–193, 454, 459,
460
homoclinic, 192, 193,
 460
Transient solutions,
 (diffusion
 equa-
tion),
 430
Transit time
diffusion,
 409, 410–412,
 423–424
and
 dimensionality,
 409
Transition
probability, 464,
 487
rule, 542,
 543
Transmission,
 (disease),
 244ff
Transport
active,
 316
axonal, 437,
 461–463
by
 diffusion,
 407
nutrient, 273ff
Traveling waves, 317, 437, 447, 450–
460
spread
 of
 genes,
 452–455
Trialeurodes
 vaporariorum (greenhouse
whitefly),
 82, 83
Trimolecular reactions, 280, 304,
 357
Tubular
 flow, 395
Tumbles,
 480
Tumor,
 146
angiogenesis
 factor (TAP),
 445
growth, 216–217
solid, 157, 216–217,
 258
Tuning
 a
 parameter,
 55
Two–compartment model, 149–151
Two–dimensional
 manifold,
 344
Two–point
 cycles,
 46–48,
 62
Tyrosinase,
 550
Uncontrolled growth,
 115
Uniform
 steady state,
 448
Unit
 normal vector,
 397
Units
conventional,
 126
of
 measurement,
 126
Unstable
 node, 185–186,
 190
Unstable spiral, 187,
 190
Vaccination, 211, 254–256
Van
 der Pol
 oscillator, 313,
 333ff,
337, 360, 365,
 548
Variants
 of the
 chemostat,
 154
Vectors, 172,
 400
curl,
 400,
 401
dot
 products, 390, 397,
 400
field,
 177,
 375, 376, 391,
 401
gradient, 389ff
operations,
 400
position,
 172
tangent,
 175
unit
 normal, 397–398
velocity,
 173
Vegetation,
 90
quality
 of,
 (See plant quality)
Velocity,
 reaction, 300
Velocity
 vector,
 173
Ventilation
 volume, 27–28,
 34, 66,
207
Venules,
 482
Vertebrate
 skin
 patterns,
 541
Vesicles,
 461
Victims/exploiters, 259, 352, 536,
 549
Viruses,
 242
Visual
 cortex, 530,
 540
Visual
 hallucination patterns,
 540
Vital
 dynamics, 243, 247, 249,
 263
Voles,
 267
Voltage,
 320
clamp experiment, 318,
 321
Fitzhugh's convention,
 324
oscillation,
 336
oscillation,
 giant muscle
 fiber of
barnacle,
 366
threshold,
 316
Volumetric
 receptor concentration,
 274
Wake,
 sleep cycles,
 362
Wave
 fronts,
 chemical,
 485
Wave
 speed,
 439–441, 455,
 460
Wavenumber,
 504ff
permissible
 perturbations,
 508
Waves
traveling, 317, 437, 447, 449ff
Waves
 of
 disease,
 65
WBCs
 (See White blood cells)
Well–posed
 problem,
 414
Whales, krill,
 265
White
 blood cells,
 60
Whooping cough,
 255
Wing
 disc,
 526
Worms,
 242
Xylem,
 287,
 289
Yeast
cell–glucose model,
 456–459
Yield, 119, 122,
 442
Zebras,
 530
Zeiraphera
 diniana (moth),
 77, 103
Zones
 of
 toxicity,
 416
Zooplankton,
 536